$1000 gaming PC. Advice?

TomSkini

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It's a good build, but as it's for gaming you should put more money towards the graphics card and less into other components that won't affect your gaming experience. For example, you could get a motherboard for 50-60 dollars less and not notice a performance difference.
Also, are you planning on overclocking or not?
 

gamer1357

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Its good but I would put less money toward the motherboard and ram and more toward the gpu.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.97 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VI Hero ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($149.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($82.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($86.21 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($56.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($280.80 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 500R Black ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($84.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $1031.91
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-13 19:58 EDT-0400

Keep in mind I used a z87 motherboard because it is cheaper than the z97 and is still a fantastic motherboard. I'm telling you this because you have to update the bios which is really easy on the asus website.